Shangkar Surname
Approximately 58 people bear this surname
Shangkar Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Indonesia | 25 | 1:5,289,968 | 246,176 |
| Malaysia | 15 | 1:1,966,282 | 78,777 |
| India | 13 | 1:59,005,029 | 552,550 |
| Singapore | 4 | 1:1,376,926 | 28,409 |
| Bangladesh | 1 | 1:159,356,773 | 26,077 |
Shangkar (6,589) may also be a first name.
Shangkar Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Shangkar Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Shangkar (Bengali: শংকর, Hindi: शङ्कर, Tibetan: ཤང་དཀར་) occurs more in Indonesia more than any other country or territory. It may also be found as a variant:. For other potential spellings of Shangkar click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Shangkar? popularity and diffusion
The last name Shangkar is the 2,530,696th most numerous last name throughout the world. It is borne by around 1 in 125,647,343 people. Shangkar occurs mostly in Asia, where 100 percent of Shangkar live; 76 percent live in Southeast Asia and 69 percent live in Malayo-Arabic Southeast Asia. Shangkar is also the 80,694th most numerous forename globally, held by 6,589 people.
This surname is most frequent in Indonesia, where it is borne by 25 people, or 1 in 5,289,968. In Indonesia it is most prevalent in: West Nusa Tenggara, where 100 percent live. Excluding Indonesia it exists in 4 countries. It is also found in Malaysia, where 26 percent live and India, where 22 percent live.
Phonetically Similar Names
Shangkar Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Shangkar in the Hindi language | ||
| शङ्कर | sankara | - |
| Shangkar in the Bengali language | ||
| শংকর | sankara | 99.98 |
| শাংকর | sankara | 0.02 |
| Shangkar in the Tibetan language | ||
| ཤང་དཀར་ | shangkar | 75 |
| ཤང་ཀར་ | shangkar | 25 |
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Footnotes
- Surnames are taken as the first part of an person's inherited family name, caste, clan name or in some cases patronymic
- Name distribution statistics are generated from a global database of over 4 billion people - more information
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- Rank: Name are ranked by incidence using the ordinal ranking method; the name that occurs the most is assigned a rank of 1; name that occur less frequently receive an incremented rank; if two or more name occur the same number of times they are assigned the same rank and successive rank is incremented by the total preceeding names
- Ethnic group cannot necessarily be determined by geographic occurrence
- Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Shangkar
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